Word: irgun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Knesset. Mrs. Meir was forced to bargain earnestly with Religious Party and Liberal Party leaders in order to form a governing coalition. In February she had to threaten resignation to keep the warring factions of her own party in line. Meanwhile, the right-wing opposition-led by onetime Irgun Terrorist Menachem Begin-banded together in a menacing bloc known as Likud (union...
...Canal. Likud's greatest obstacle to victory is clearly Menachem Begin, who has led the opposition since 1948. Born 60 years ago in Brest Litovsk, Begin (pronounced Bay-ghin) came to Palestine with the Polish Army in 1942 and soon set up an anti-British terrorist organization, the Irgun Zvai Leumi. Among the Irgun's acts of savagery under his command were the blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946, the hanging of two British sergeants, and the massacre of at least 254 Arab civilians in the village of Dir Yassin in 1948. Today...
...proclamation he had read was their call to war. Ben-Gurion acted as Defense Minister as well as Prime Minister and shrewdly defended his fledgling country on four fronts. At the same time, he prevented civil war by ordering Israeli soldiers to fire if the Jewish terrorist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization) attempted to land weapons for itself from the freighter Altalena in defiance of a Ben-Gurion order that "there shall be one army, one nation, one people." The Urgun, headed by present Knesset Opposition Leader Menahem Begin, backed down and obeyed Ben-Gurion...
Such a situation would be quite unusual in Israel's parliamentary democracy. The leader of Likud is Menahem Begin, who served as commander of the anti-British terrorist organization, the Irgun, during the British Mandate over Palestine. Begin is an advocate of annexation of every inch of occupied Arab territory, and it would be interesting to see his response to any American-Soviet peace initiative calling for Israeli withdrawal...
...helplessness and bitterness they feel at their predicament that spawn such groups as Al-Fatah and Black September, comparable to the Jewish Irgun...